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Born on 11 April 1920 in Lewisham, London, O'Donnell was the son of Bernard O'Donnell, a journalist on the Empire News, and was educated at Catford Central School.^[2]

He began to write professionally at the age of 16. In 1938 he joined the British Army, and during the war served as an NCO in mobile radio detachment (3 Corps) of Royal Corps of Signals in the 8th Army. He saw active service in Persia in 1942, after which his unit was moved to Syria, Egypt, the Western Desert, and Italy, and he was with forces that went into Greece in October 1944. After the war, O'Donnell returned to civilian life and began to script comic strips, including an adaptation for the Daily Express of the James Bond novel, Dr. No. From 1953 to 1966 he wrote for Garth, and from 1956 to 1962 Romeo Brown (with Jim Holdaway as an artist). {{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

In addition to the comic strips and graphic novels based on Modesty Blaise, O'Donnell published two collections of short stories and twenty novels. He wrote a play that was widely performed in the 1980s, Mr. Fothergill's Murder, and wrote for television and film. He wrote for women's magazines and children's papers early in his career. His most famous creation, Modesty Blaise, was first published in 1963 in comic strip form. For the first seven years, the strip was illustrated by Holdaway until his death in 1970. Enrique Badia Romero then became the artist, and except for a seven-year period (1979–86) he drew the strip until it ended in 2001. {{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

In 1965, O'Donnell novelized his screenplay for a motion picture version (the final release of which in 1966 used virtually nothing of O'Donnell's original material), which was published as Modesty Blaise. This book was a huge success and O'Donnell would publish a dozen more novels and short story collections until 1996. Kingsley Amis said the novels were "endlessly fascinating"^[6] and that Blaise and Garvin were "one of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."^[7]

At the request of publisher Ernest Hecht, he began writing gothic romance and adventure novels under the pen name of Madeleine Brent. The novels are not a series, but feature a variety of strong female protagonists. They are written in first person, take place in the late Victorian era, and although every protagonist has connections to England, part of each book is set in various locations around the world—including China, Australia, Afghanistan, and Mexico. In 2001, O'Donnell retired from writing the Modesty Blaise comic strip (the lead characters having been given a definitive end in the previous Cobra Trap short story collection) and was also said to have retired from full-time writing (in 2002, he gave Romero permission to adapt one of his short stories, "The Dark Angels", to a comic initially published in Scandinavian anthology magazine Agent X9 and later reprinted by Comics Revue magazine in the US). From 2004 to 2009 he wrote the introductions for a series of Modesty Blaise comic strip reprint volumes published by Titan Books; beginning in 2010, just prior to O'Donnell's death, another writer had begun composing these introductions. He was also interviewed for a special feature included on the DVD release of the 2004 film My Name Is Modesty, which was based on his creation.

O'Donnell's wish was that no one else write any future Modesty Blaise stories, but whether this was ever formalized is unknown.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} With the exception of "The Dark Angels" adaptation and the My Name is Modesty film, no further new productions related to the character have been released as of 2015. In 2007, working with young women students at Bullers Wood and Newstead Wood schools, he established an official website, Modesty Blaise, Ltd.

Death

According to his obituary in the Evening Standard, O'Donnell had been suffering from Parkinson's disease in his later years. He died at age 90 in Brighton, Sussex.^[8]

Bibliography

As Peter O'Donnell

Modesty Blaise book series

O'Donnell also wrote romance books and television (Take a Pair of Private Eyes) and movie (Revenge of She) scripts.

Mr. Fothergill's Murder first opened on 25 October 1982 at the Duke of York theatre, London, and was published by the English Theatre Guild. Among other places, it was performed at The English Theatre of Hamburg in the 1987-88 season.

Madeleine Brent

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7116066.ece|title=Peter O’Donnell: creator of the comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise|work=The Times|date=4 May 2010|accessdate=4 May 2010}}
2. ^¹{{cite web|first=Steve|last=Holland|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/05/peter-odonnell-obituary|title=Peter O'Donnell obituary|work=The Guardian|date=5 May 2010|accessdate=10 May 2010}}
3. ^{{cite news|author=Bruce Weber|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/books/09odonnell.html|title=Peter O'Donnell, the Creator of Modesty Blaise, Dies at 90|work=The New York Times|date=8 May 2010|accessdate=20 January 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sayyide.de/html/who_is_madeleine_brent_.html|title=Who is Madeleine Brent?|publisher=Sayyide.de|accessdate=13 August 2012}}
5. ^{{Citation|title=Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association|url=http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/index.php/awards|date=2012-08-10}}
6. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20080314141253/http://www.modestyblaiseltd.com/proudestmoment.html Kingsley Amis letter], modestyblaiseltd.com; accessed 15 November 2014.
7. ^The Silver Mistress, Pan paperback edition, London, 1975.
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/modesty-blaise-author-dies-aged-90-6465615.html|title=Modesty Blaise author dies aged 90|work=Evening Standard|date=4 May 2010|accessdate=4 May 2010}}

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